172 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 20-Nov. 12, 1698.

Original
Journal.

the Survivo^r of them to sell and Acknowledge such Lands as
were left by Colonel Vincent Lowe for the payment of his just
Debts, Read the first tyme.Upon reading whereof recomended
to the house that a Law be made where any person dying
with in this province dyes indebted so much that his psonall
Estate will not answer the same that then his lands if he has
any be made Subject to the paym^t thereof the good Effect of
which law is dayly Experienced in our neighbouring province
of pensilvania, Whereby Merch^ts and others are the better
Encouraged to Credditt Free holders
That for the future when any person intends to petition the
Assembly for the Sale of Lands

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Ordered that he State his Case and publish it in all the
Countys in the province three months before the Assembly
sitt from which he expects Reliefe.
The pet. of Colonel Henry Mitchel referrd to the Comittee
of Accompts.
Ord^rd that it be referred to the house to give their Opinion
whether a person who hath not been in the Country three
years is not debarr'd by the law for Encouragem^t of learning
and to be Clk of a parish or Clk of the Vestry, proposed that
the house would make some law or proposalls for the better
Correspondency and neighbourhood of this province with the
Colony of Virg^a as Runaway Drs Serv^ts Negroes Felony and
other Criminalls and that the law may be the Same in Vir-
ginia as here to people Entertayning and takeing up Runaway
Serv^ts there or here.
Came Colonel John Thompson Nav^ll officer at the head of
the Bay and mad oath to his Acco^t Major Thomas Smith Cap^t
Philip Hoskins and M^r W^m Hutchison being p^rsent from the
house.
Then Came the following Message from the house of Dele-
gates by Colonel John Thompson M^r perry and others viz^t

By the house of Delegates No^r 1^rst 1698.

By a Comittee especially appointed by us to inspect Sev^rall
papers and Lres by his Ex^cy delivered to this house and to
make Reporte of w' they shall find Conven' and necessary to
be Answered by this house and make Reporte thereof do
make this ffollowing Reporte Viz^t
In a long Lre frome the L^ds of the Comittee of Trade and
plantation bearing Date the second day of Sep' 1697 this
Comittee have made these Sev^rall Observations one the
Severall paragraphs therein
1^st As to the first part of which we find perticularly